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Sensing nutrient levels in bacteria

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Monitoring nutritional sufficiency is essential in optimizing bacterial survival strategies. Recent studies find that nutrient sensing is delocalized over many cell components. Adding to the complexity, some metabolite pools and cellular components contribute to more than one signal transduction pathway and to housekeeping functions.

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Figure 1: How nutrition is monitored in heterotrophs and how it influences cellular functions.

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  1. Thomas Ferenci is in the School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences G08, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. tferenci@mail.usyd.edu.au,

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